MARKET REPORT: SPAIN ONLINE ASENSI LAW
THE UPCOMING SPANISH DECREE FOR ONLINE GAMING
As requested in the Gaming Act 13/2011, in order to provide a recreational and fun experience to the participants in online sites, the Spanish Gambling legislation includes provisions aimed to provide a safe gaming environment to customers, mainly along the regulations for each one of the authorised games as well as within the requested technical standards.
Following the trend of other EU jurisdictions and after the approval of the decree on gaming advertising, which leaves quite small windows to operators in order to make any kind of publicity of their licensed products, the fresh Ministry of Consumption was tasked with reducing and minimising risky, problematic, or pathological gambling behaviours of the participants and its potential negative effects through a new decree on responsible gaming.
According to the above, the online gambling authority in Spain, the General Directorate for Gambling Regulation - the so called DGOJ, - has already issued the first two draft versions of said decree, setting the elements that define the offer and consumption of gambling for the protection of consumers, focusing on certain groups of participants.
STAGE OF CONSIDERATION AND EXPECTED ENTER INTO FORCE
Te EU standstill period ended on January 17, 2022, and the Spanish Government plans the approval of the Decree developing safer gaming environments the first quarter of 2022. Additionally, the latest circulated version of this legal text provides the entry into force the July 1, 2022, while some measures should be implement by the operators before the July 1, 2023.
NOVELTY AND PERTINENCE
Te Decree would be the first regulation containing exclusively responsible gaming provisions in Spain. Several of the provisions included in this Bill were already in place through other regulations, like the Decree on technical standards and the ministerial orders for each one of the permitted games. In this sense, the new Bill states partially the responsible gaming measures provided within the technical gambling regulation, which comes from 2011. For instance, obligations like providing access to a summary report about the gaming activity of the player as well as the need of filling the outcome of each round were already in place and now have been simply developed in a more detailed way.
A similar situation occurs in relation to the measures of responsible gaming included within
P80 WIRE / PULSE / INSIGHT / REPORTS
Santiago Asensi Managing Partner Asensi Law Firm
Margarita Cuerva Lawyer
Asensi Law Firm
Asensi represents many of the major operators and gaming service providers and is involved in the regulatory developments of the gaming industry. Asensi provides legal advice to a large number of bookmakers, poker, casino, bingo and skill games operators (online and terrestrial).
This Insight is compiled by Santiago Asensi (Managing Partner) and Margarita Cuerva (lawyer) at Asensi Law Firm.
www.asensi.es santiago@asensi.es
“Following the trend of other EU jurisdictions and after the approval of the decree on gaming advertising, which
leaves quite small windows to operators in order to make any kind of publicity of their
licensed products, the fresh Ministry of Consumption has the purpose to reduce and minimise risky, problematic, or pathological gambling
behaviours of the participants and its potential negative
effects through a new decree on responsible gaming.”
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